Where is the rest of the site?
The former Living Table website was, and I'm saying this in my best Minnesotan vernacular, not too good. And what you see here is a minimalistic placeholder.
Where is the rest of the site? Great question! Let me explain.
The former Living Table website was wholly inaccessible. It couldn’t even connect as a secure (https) website, which is why in Summer 2021 some folks realized at vesper services that their phones simply refused to even let the Living Table website load at all for their bulletins, because modern moile phones had security policies that wouldn’t allow the connection.
After meeting with Council, and discussing the different people expected to visit this website and for what purposes, they decided to scrap that old website and create something new, accessible, and more functional.
Importantly, as of April 2022, you are not yet seeing that new website, not exactly. What you are seeing is what I’m calling a minimalistic placeholder.
In response to early feedback, let me add some context to the process.
There are many wonderful things about Living Table’s past, present, and future. Right now this is a placeholder website, and the substantive content is not here yet. First, I need to develop the complete website. Then, the church leadership needs to write the copy they want to share. Thanks for your patience. 🙂
For any geeks out there, I have built a custom blog system for the Living Table website using custom post types, custom fields, and dynamic query loops to populate stylized grids and containers dynamically. This took a fair amount of custom coding to bring to life (php mostly, some javascipt, and of course some css).
About Erika Sanborne
Erika Sanborne (she/they) is the website administrator for Living Table. She is also a researcher, stats nerd, social science educator, UCC clergy, and a teaching consultant dedicated to population health and leaving no one behind. Her latest web project is Autistic PhD.
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